Generate the code from PlantUML diagrams

[Lecrapouille]

Generate the code from PlantUML diagrams

[Lecrapouille]

Oh I missed your graph generation ! Nice for github projects while usually, in professional project a software architect draws first the state machine and a dev-guy codes it after ... not the inverse :)

[fgmacedo]

Hi @Lecrapouille , thanks for pointing out this. Nice job on the lib!

One of the great benefits of using this library and something that I'm proud of is having a clean and concise representation of a state machine that is understandable from reading the code.

So my approach to SM is the opposite, when I need to make a diagram, I write the code in a my_sm.py file and generate the graph using the command line, for example:

 python -m statemachine.contrib.diagram my_sm.py my_sm.png

See examples of how to get diagrams from source code automatically.

This code first approach evolves better since diagrams using those tools get aged on the day the first line of code is written. If you generate the diagram from code automatically, you can still communicate with diagrams in your docs but is sure that the diagram is kept up to date.

Since I'm not aligned to work on this and it's not a direct requirement for the library, I'll close the issue. Maybe if someone is able to make it happen, we can have an implementation directly on your library as an alternative output for the same parser.

Thanks again!